Who learns my lesson complete? Boss, journeyman, apprentice, churchman… The stupid and the wise thinker, parents… porter and customer, Editor, author, artist, and schoolboy—dr…

Long, too long America, Traveling roads all even and peaceful yo… only, But now, ah now, to learn from crises of… with direst fate and recoiling not,

I was asking for something specific and… Whereupon lo! upsprang the aboriginal na… Now I see what there is in a name, a wo… self-sufficient, I see that the word of my city is that w…

With all thy gifts America, Standing secure, rapidly tending, overlo… Power, wealth, extent, vouchsafed to the… vouchsafed to thee, What if one gift thou lackest? (the ulti…

Not heaving from my ribb’d breast only; Not in sighs at night, in rage, dissatis… Not in those long-drawn, ill-supprest si… Not in many an oath and promise broken; Not in my wilful and savage soul’s volit…

IN clouds descending, in midnight sleep… Of the look at first of the mortally wou… Of the dead on their backs, with arms ex… I dream, I dream, I dream. Of scenes of nature, the fields and the…

After surmounting three-score and ten, With all their chances, changes, losses,… My parents’ deaths, the vagaries of my l… me, the war of ’63 and ‘4, As some old broken soldier, after a long…

Yet, yet, ye downcast hours, I know ye… Weights of lead, how ye clog and cling a… Earth to a chamber of mourning turns—I… voice, Matter is conqueror—matter, triumphant o…

When I read the book, the biography fam… And is this then (said I) what the auth… And so will some one when I am dead and… (As if any man really knew aught of my l… Why even I myself I often think know li…

And now, gentlemen, A word I give to remain in your memorie… As base, and finale too, for all metaphy… (So, to the students, the old professor, At the close of his crowded course.)

Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice, Be not dishearten’d, affection shall sol… Those who love each other shall become i… They shall yet make Columbia victorious… Sons of the Mother of All, you shall ye…

Unseen buds, infinite, hidden well, Under the snow and ice, under the darkne… Like babes in wombs, latent, folded, com… Billions of billions, and trillions of t… (On earth and in the sea—the universe—th…